Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

In this article, I jointly investigate the political and the economic effects of immigration, and
study the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European …

How does the arrival of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of
existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration …

We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-
county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we …

We examine the labor market effects of Secure Communities (SC), a police-based
immigration enforcement policy implemented in 2008–13. Using variation in implementation …

The article surveys three economic history literatures that can speak to contemporary
challenges to globalization: the literature on the anti-globalization backlash of the nineteenth …

In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing
countryspecific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the …

Abstract Since (Hicks, 1932), economists have noted that inventions often economize on
labor, so scarce labor should encourage more invention. But (Acemoglu, 2010) notes that in …

Fears of immigrants as a threat to public health have a long and sordid history. At the turn of
the 20th century, when immigrants made up one-third of the population in crowded …

Between 1915 and 1930, during the First Great Migration, more than 1.5 million African
Americans migrated from the South to the North of the United States, altering the racial …